面试官：什么是虚拟DOM？如何实现一个虚拟DOM？说说你的思路 #

const app = new Vue({
    el:"#app",
    data:{
        foo:"foo"
    }
})

(function anonymous(
) {
	with(this){return _c('div',{attrs:{"id":"app"}},[_c('p',{staticClass:"p"},
					  [_v("节点内容")]),_v(" "),_c('h3',[_v(_s(foo))])])}})

export default class VNode {
  tag: string | void;
  data: VNodeData | void;
  children: ?Array<VNode>;
  text: string | void;
  elm: Node | void;
  ns: string | void;
  context: Component | void; // rendered in this component's scope
  functionalContext: Component | void; // only for functional component root nodes
  key: string | number | void;
  componentOptions: VNodeComponentOptions | void;
  componentInstance: Component | void; // component instance
  parent: VNode | void; // component placeholder node
  raw: boolean; // contains raw HTML? (server only)
  isStatic: boolean; // hoisted static node
  isRootInsert: boolean; // necessary for enter transition check
  isComment: boolean; // empty comment placeholder?
  isCloned: boolean; // is a cloned node?
  isOnce: boolean; // is a v-once node?

  constructor (
    tag?: string,
    data?: VNodeData,
    children?: ?Array<VNode>,
    text?: string,
    elm?: Node,
    context?: Component,
    componentOptions?: VNodeComponentOptions
  ) {
    /*当前节点的标签名*/
    this.tag = tag
    /*当前节点对应的对象，包含了具体的一些数据信息，是一个VNodeData类型，可以参考VNodeData类型中的数据信息*/
    this.data = data
    /*当前节点的子节点，是一个数组*/
    this.children = children
    /*当前节点的文本*/
    this.text = text
    /*当前虚拟节点对应的真实dom节点*/
    this.elm = elm
    /*当前节点的名字空间*/
    this.ns = undefined
    /*编译作用域*/
    this.context = context
    /*函数化组件作用域*/
    this.functionalContext = undefined
    /*节点的key属性，被当作节点的标志，用以优化*/
    this.key = data && data.key
    /*组件的option选项*/
    this.componentOptions = componentOptions
    /*当前节点对应的组件的实例*/
    this.componentInstance = undefined
    /*当前节点的父节点*/
    this.parent = undefined
    /*简而言之就是是否为原生HTML或只是普通文本，innerHTML的时候为true，textContent的时候为false*/
    this.raw = false
    /*静态节点标志*/
    this.isStatic = false
    /*是否作为跟节点插入*/
    this.isRootInsert = true
    /*是否为注释节点*/
    this.isComment = false
    /*是否为克隆节点*/
    this.isCloned = false
    /*是否有v-once指令*/
    this.isOnce = false
  }

  // DEPRECATED: alias for componentInstance for backwards compat.
  /* istanbul ignore next https://github.com/answershuto/learnVue*/
  get child (): Component | void {
    return this.componentInstance
  }
}

export function createElement (
  context: Component,
  tag: any,
  data: any,
  children: any,
  normalizationType: any,
  alwaysNormalize: boolean
): VNode | Array<VNode> {
  if (Array.isArray(data) || isPrimitive(data)) {
    normalizationType = children
    children = data
    data = undefined
  }
  if (isTrue(alwaysNormalize)) {
    normalizationType = ALWAYS_NORMALIZE
  }
  return _createElement(context, tag, data, children, normalizationType)
}

if (normalizationType === ALWAYS_NORMALIZE) {
    children = normalizeChildren(children)
} else if ( === SIMPLE_NORMALIZE) {
    children = simpleNormalizeChildren(children)
}

let vnode, ns
// 对tag进行判断
if (typeof tag === 'string') {
  let Ctor
  ns = (context.$vnode && context.$vnode.ns) || config.getTagNamespace(tag)
  if (config.isReservedTag(tag)) {
    // 如果是内置的节点，则直接创建一个普通VNode
    vnode = new VNode(
      config.parsePlatformTagName(tag), data, children,
      undefined, undefined, context
    )
  } else if (isDef(Ctor = resolveAsset(context.$options, 'components', tag))) {
    // component
    // 如果是component类型，则会通过createComponent创建VNode节点
    vnode = createComponent(Ctor, data, context, children, tag)
  } else {
    vnode = new VNode(
      tag, data, children,
      undefined, undefined, context
    )
  }
} else {
  // direct component options / constructor
  vnode = createComponent(tag, data, context, children)
}

export function createComponent (
  Ctor: Class<Component> | Function | Object | void,
  data: ?VNodeData,
  context: Component,
  children: ?Array<VNode>,
  tag?: string
): VNode | Array<VNode> | void {
  if (isUndef(Ctor)) {
    return
  }
 // 构建子类构造函数 
  const baseCtor = context.$options._base

  // plain options object: turn it into a constructor
  if (isObject(Ctor)) {
    Ctor = baseCtor.extend(Ctor)
  }

  // if at this stage it's not a constructor or an async component factory,
  // reject.
  if (typeof Ctor !== 'function') {
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
      warn(`Invalid Component definition: ${String(Ctor)}`, context)
    }
    return
  }

  // async component
  let asyncFactory
  if (isUndef(Ctor.cid)) {
    asyncFactory = Ctor
    Ctor = resolveAsyncComponent(asyncFactory, baseCtor, context)
    if (Ctor === undefined) {
      return createAsyncPlaceholder(
        asyncFactory,
        data,
        context,
        children,
        tag
      )
    }
  }

  data = data || {}

  // resolve constructor options in case global mixins are applied after
  // component constructor creation
  resolveConstructorOptions(Ctor)

  // transform component v-model data into props & events
  if (isDef(data.model)) {
    transformModel(Ctor.options, data)
  }

  // extract props
  const propsData = extractPropsFromVNodeData(data, Ctor, tag)

  // functional component
  if (isTrue(Ctor.options.functional)) {
    return createFunctionalComponent(Ctor, propsData, data, context, children)
  }

  // extract listeners, since these needs to be treated as
  // child component listeners instead of DOM listeners
  const listeners = data.on
  // replace with listeners with .native modifier
  // so it gets processed during parent component patch.
  data.on = data.nativeOn

  if (isTrue(Ctor.options.abstract)) {
    const slot = data.slot
    data = {}
    if (slot) {
      data.slot = slot
    }
  }

  // 安装组件钩子函数，把钩子函数合并到data.hook中
  installComponentHooks(data)

  //实例化一个VNode返回。组件的VNode是没有children的
  const name = Ctor.options.name || tag
  const vnode = new VNode(
    `vue-component-${Ctor.cid}${name ? `-${name}` : ''}`,
    data, undefined, undefined, undefined, context,
    { Ctor, propsData, listeners, tag, children },
    asyncFactory
  )
  if (__WEEX__ && isRecyclableComponent(vnode)) {
    return renderRecyclableComponentTemplate(vnode)
  }

  return vnode
}